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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of South Holland District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official South Holland website
37,293 approved · 4,541 refused · 1,374 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 28 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 2 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
The Sycamores Chapelgate Sutton St James
Received 17 Feb 200339 High Street Spalding
Received 6 Feb 200745 Beccelm Drive Crowland Peterborough Cambs PE6 0AG
Received 12 Jul 20071 Barbers Drove Crowland PE6 0BE
Received 11 Jun 2008'Greenshires', Quadring Bank Spalding Lincs
Received 13 Mar 19987 Poachers Gate Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3JP
Received 30 May 2018Land off Ladywood Road (Rear : 59 West Elloe Avenue) Spalding
Received 26 Nov 200472 Church Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs PE12 7LL
Received 11 Nov 200514 St Margarets Quadring Spalding Lincs PE11 4PR
Received 6 Sept 2004'Newholme' Quadring Bank Quadring Spalding Lincs
Received 6 May 1998Hurdletree Nurseries Hurdletree Bank Whaplode St Catherine Spalding, Lincs
Received 5 Feb 199218 Fleet Street Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 22 Jun 199244 East Street Crowland PE6 0EN
Received 30 Apr 2018Frostley Gate Fleet Fen Spalding Lincs
Received 6 Mar 2000Land at Treading Field Sutton St Edmund Spalding Lincs
Received 8 Feb 201114 Ladywood Road Spalding Lincs PE11 2DA
Received 20 Mar 2003WINDMILL FARM THE FEN BASTON DEEPING ST NICHOLAS PE6 9PX
Received 15 Mar 2021Benner Road South Holland Enterprise Park Pinchbeck
Received 7 May 200418 Market Place Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4ST
Received 8 Jul 2005Winters Lane Storage Winters Lane Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9BE
Received 2 Feb 20111b YOUNGS ROW SUTTON BRIDGE SPALDING PE12 9SS
Received 18 Oct 2016Plot adjacent: 66 Barrier Bank Cowbit Spalding PE12 6XQ
Received 6 Jul 2018Barns at Pulvertoft Hall Broadgate Gedney Fen Spalding PE12 0DG
Received 27 Jun 2013The Shamrocks Gooch Gate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Oct 1998Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for South Holland District Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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